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Trireme

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A named three-banked war-galley of classical Greek and later Mediterranean practice. Not a dromon, not a longship, and not a generic boat.

Also known as Greek trireme

Hellenic religion

  • Trireme appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus names the trireme, the three-banked war-galley, throughout his account of Greek and Persian fleets. A named Hellenic hull in that history, not a dromon and not a generic boat.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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